A few days ago a girlfriend of mine who I like invited me over for dinner. I canceled my previous commitments and I accepted the invitation. While I was getting ready to go for dinner I noticed that I was becoming anxious.
As I become more aware and know my true self deeper I am becoming quicker at observing these reactions and percieving when I’ve felt similarly before.
A time in which I felt similarly anxious for a very different reason –my computer wasn’t working and I wasn’t able to call into a meeting- an awakened friend who was more aware of my own feelings than me asked me “Can you see how many things you are believing right now?”
I knew this anxiety was coming from an irrational stream of underlying chaotic thoughts, hopes and fears and asked myself the same question: “What are you believing right now?” Like all the masters say, it’s most of the time not a situation that makes us anxious or fearful but our beliefs about the situation. And I also know something that I haven’t heard from the masters, anxiety doesn’t work well with girls -or anything else for that matter. Therefore I tried to open up my mind and watched the thoughts and let them go with the anxiety.
The best way to ask yourself that question is as if you were a diabetic smashing a piñata:
1. Smash open the piñata = Ask yourself the question “What am I believing right now?”
2. See sweets flying around = See thoughts coming to the “front” of your eyes/brain
3. You are tempted to go after the sweets = You are going to follow your thoughts
4. You remind yourself not to eat sweets or your sugar levels will skyrocket and you lose interest in the sweets and forget about them= You remind yourself to just watch your thoughts and not follow them because you don’t want to go insane and let them go